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ISA · YBMA

Mount Isa Airport

Mount Isa, Australia — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.

IATAISAYBMA
Latitude-20.6664degrees
Longitude139.4885degrees
Elevation1,121feet

SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026

How this is worked out

  1. Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
  2. Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
  3. Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
  4. A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
  5. Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805

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SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Flight times from ISA to the nearest major hubs

Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Mount Isa.

HubCodeDistanceFlight time
Cairns, Australia CNS782 km1h 23m
Brisbane, Australia BNE1,571 km2h 22m
Adelaide, Australia ADL1,591 km2h 24m
Gold Coast, Australia OOL1,644 km2h 28m
Sydney (Mascot), Australia SYD1,871 km2h 45m
Melbourne, Australia MEL1,960 km2h 51m
Perth, Australia PER2,650 km3h 43m
Kuta, Badung, Indonesia DPS2,926 km4h 03m
Queenstown, New Zealand ZQN3,808 km5h 09m
Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines CEB3,839 km5h 11m

SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Questions about ISA

What is the airport code for Mount Isa?

Mount Isa Airport uses the IATA code ISA and the ICAO code YBMA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.

Where is Mount Isa Airport?

It sits at 20.6664° S, 139.4885° E, serving Mount Isa in Australia, at an elevation of 1,121 feet.

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.

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